Most people experience trust as relationship-bound, not generalized

Evidence

As noted in chapter 1, most people, when asked whom they trust, speak immediately of people with whom they have ongoing relationships. For them and for the encapsulated-interest view, trust is relational. My trust of you grows out of my relationship with you; it is not independent of that relationship (or of reputational proxies for such a relationship). — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 876

Categorization

• XREF: Directly anchors the reader’s purpose: blindness in Saramago destroys the relational substrate (ongoing relationships and reputation), converting trust into generalized/dispositional form and collapsing order. — connects to: Most of what people believe is taken on trust, not direct observation — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New…, 280